Canada Post to process a billion letters, parcels this month

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The increasing popularity of e-commerce means a busy holiday season for Canada Post, which expects to handle one billion cards, letters and packages this month.

The shipping and sorting frenzy reached its peak on Thursday, the agency’s busiest day of the year. It was the last day packages could be mailed and still have a good chance of reaching their destination by Christmas.

Sorting plants across the country were inundated with packages of clothes, toys, books and other gifts that were purchased online.

“On a regular day we do about 300,000 parcels a day. Now we’re doing half a million,” said a Canada Post employee in Montreal.

Canada Posts also attributes the spike in business to Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, once a U.S. phenomenon but now an increasingly popular way for Canadians to do their Christmas shopping.